Whilst I tell the gallant stripling's tale of daring;
When this morn they led the gallant youth to judgment
Before the dread tribunal of the grand Tsar,
Then our Tsar and Gosudar began to question:
Tell me, tell me, little lad, and peasant
bantling!
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XXXI
"Then where, o'er two bright havens,
The towers of Corinth frown;
Where the gigantic King of Day
On his own Rhodes looks down;
Where oft Orontes murmurs
Beneath the laurel shades;
Where Nile reflects the endless length
Of dark red colonnades;
Where in the still deep water,
Sheltered from waves and blasts,
Bristles the dusky forest
Of Byrsa's thousand masts;
Where fur-clad hunters wander
Amidst the
northern
ice;
Where through the sand of morning-land
The camel bears the spice;
Where Atlas flings his shadow
Far o'er the western foam,
Shall be great fear on all who hear
The might name of Rome.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Be it confest that, for the first time, seated
Within thy
innocent
lodge and oratory, 300
One of a festive circle, I poured out
Libations, to thy memory drank, till pride
And gratitude grew dizzy in a brain
Never excited by the fumes of wine
Before that hour, or since.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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Pass I on Unto Lady "Miels-de-Ben,"
Having praised thy girdle's scope, How the stays ply back from it; I breathe no hope
That thou
shouldst
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Now mix your exultation and your tears,
Over a city saved, the while its lords,
Twin leaders of the fight, have parcelled out
With forged
arbitrament
of Scythian steel
The full division of their fatherland,
And, as their father's imprecation bade,
Shall have their due of land, a twofold grave.
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Aeschylus |
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Appoloinaire |
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Their destiny is more abject and inglorious as their
delinquency is more
contemptible
and pernicious.
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Shelley |
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The obsession of impermanence has often been
sublimated
into great
mystic poetry.
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Li Po |
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The world is equal to the child's desire
Who plays with
pictures
by his nursery fire--
How vast the world by lamplight seems!
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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His might continues in thee not for naught,
Nor shall his
wondrous
gifts be frustrate thus.
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Milton |
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So stands the curse, so I
confront
it here.
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Aeschylus |
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The lady fancied what the swain had said,
Was policy, and to
concealment
led.
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La Fontaine |
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Some in the flames bestrew'd with flour they threw;
Some cut in
fragments
from the forks they drew:
These while on several tables they dispose.
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Odyssey - Pope |
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So schwatzt und lehrt man ungestort;
Wer will sich mit den Narrn
befassen?
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Goethe - Faust- Der Tragödie erster Teil |
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Lance and spear upon the height,
bristling
strange in fiery light,
While the castle stood in shade.
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Elizabeth Browning |
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But, in our later lays,
Full freighted with your praise,
Fair memory harbors those whose lives, laid down
In gallant faith and
generous
heat,
Gained only sharp defeat.
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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Gallants, now sing his song below:
Rondeau
Oh, grant him now eternal peace,
Lord, and
everlasting
light,
He wasn't worth a candle bright,
Nor even a sprig of parsley.
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Villon |
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Certo non si scoteo si forte Delo,
pria che Latona in lei facesse 'l nido
a
parturir
li due occhi del cielo.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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ne pouvez-vous vivre
ensemble?
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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It must be frankly
confessed
that these lines do not ring true.
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Alexander Pope |
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'26 the maze of schools:'
the labyrinth of conflicting systems of thought,
especially
of criticism.
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Alexander Pope |
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- You provide, in
accordance
with paragraph 1.
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Khalil Gibran - Poems |
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O how charmingly Nature hath array'd thee
With the soft green grass and juicy clover,
And with corn-flowers
blooming
and luxuriant.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Soon as he saw me, "Hither haste," he cried,
"O
Meliboeus!
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Virgil - Eclogues |
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Say, hast thou doom'd to this divided state
Or
peaceful
amity or stern debate?
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Odyssey - Pope |
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She, that governing Goddess of citadels crowning the cities,
Builded herself their car fast-flitting with
lightest
of breezes,
Weaving plants of the pine conjoined in curve of the kelson; 10
Foremost of all to imbue rude Amphitrite with ship-lore.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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But were he not in this black habit decked,
This half
transparent
man would soon reflect
Each colour that he past by, and be seen.
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Marvell - Poems |
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Or will Pity, in line with all I ask here,
Succour a poor man, without
crushing?
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Villon |
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I can say then that I have passed long days alone with my cat and alone with one of the last authors of the Roman decadence; for since the white creature is no more I have loved, uniquely and strangely,
everything
summed up in the word: fall.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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A
something
in a summer's day,
As sIow her flambeaux burn away,
Which solemnizes me.
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Dickinson - One - Complete |
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What has
happened
since then,
Since I lay with my face to the wall,
The most despairing of men!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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Thou arte a Normanne, Hughe, a
straunger
to the launde.
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Thomas Chatterton - Rowley Poems |
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Le Testament: Rondeau
Death, I cry out at your harshness,
That stole my girl away from me,
Yet you're not satisfied I see
Until I
languish
in distress.
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Villon |
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Upon those pages she descries
Her passion's
faithful
counterpart,
Fruit of the yearnings of the heart.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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They sing, and lash the wet-flanked wind:
Sing, from Col to Hafod Mynd,
And fling their voices half a score
Of miles along the mounded shore:
Whip loud music from a tree,
And roll their pæan out to sea
Where crowded
breakers
fling and leap,
And strange things throb five fathoms deep.
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Abercrombie - Georgian Poetry 1920-22 |
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Seize the City of the Bridges--
Then get on, get on to Paris--
To the
jewelled
streets of Paris--
To the lovely woman, Paris, that has driven me to dream!
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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For the words which I intended the corpse to
speak, I confidently depended upon my ventriloquial abilities; for their
effect, I counted upon the conscience of the
murderous
wretch.
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Poe - 5 |
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when on Phyle's brow
Thou sat'st with
Thrasybulus
and his train,
Couldst thou forbode the dismal hour which now
Dims the green beauties of thine Attic plain?
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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Whan I
remembre
me of my wo,
Ful nygh out of my wit I go.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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"
"You are
married!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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His gait was soundless, like the bird,
But rapid, like the roe;
His
fashions
quaint, mosaic,
Or, haply, mistletoe.
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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George Lathrop - Dreams and Days |
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A party was chosen--and seven
survived
till the powder was laid.
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War Poetry - 1914-17 |
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The hours
Are
flitting
fast, and time is precious to me.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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I have tiding,
Glad tiding, behold how in duty
From far
Lehistan
the wind, gliding.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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Aye, let her scatter far and wide
Her terror, where the land-lock'd waves
Europe from Afric's shore divide,
Where swelling Nile the corn-field laves--
Of
strength
more potent to disdain
Hid gold, best buried in the mine,
Than gather it with hand profane,
That for man's greed would rob a shrine.
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Horace - Odes, Carmen |
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roscida
purpurea
supprime lora manu!
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Oxford Book of Latin Verse |
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Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied
warranties or the
exclusion
or limitation of certain types of damages.
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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Tu dici: "Ben discerno cio ch'i' odo;
ma perche Dio volesse, m'e occulto,
a nostra
redenzion
pur questo modo".
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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They cannot take us any more, --
Dungeons may call, and guns implore;
Unmeaning now, to me,
As
laughter
was an hour ago,
Or laces, or a travelling show,
Or who died yesterday!
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Dickinson - Two - Complete |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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Veiled from the sun in a hollow of the forest,
He sinks down;
stretched
out on a level stone,
Cleans his paw with a broad lick of his tongue
Blinks golden eyes dull with sleepiness;
And, as his inert forces, in imagination
Make his tail flicker and his flanks quiver,
Dreams himself deep in some green plantation,
Leaping, and plunging dripping claws forever
Into bullocks' flesh as they bellow and shiver.
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19th Century French Poetry |
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Before he states his objections, let me follow
the example of all fair and upright judges, who, in particular cases,
when they feel a
partiality
for one of the contending parties, desire
to be excused from hearing the cause.
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Tacitus |
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It was as if a chirping brook
Upon a toilsome way
Set
bleeding
feet to minuets
Without the knowing why.
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Chanson de Roland |
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And
strangers
to content if long apart,
Or more divided .
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William Wordsworth |
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Which way I flie is Hell; my self am Hell;
And in the lowest deep a lower deep
Still
threatning
to devour me opens wide,
To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heav'n.
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Milton |
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Meredith - Poems |
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To Marc Chagall
Donkey or cow, cockerel or horse
On to the skin of a violin
A singing man a single bird
An agile dancer with his wife
A couple
drenched
in their youth
The gold of the grass lead of the sky
Separated by azure flames
Of the health-giving dew
The blood glitters the heart rings
A couple the first reflection
And in a cellar of snow
The opulent vine draws
A face with lunar lips
That never slept at night.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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'Will you give me a morning
draught?
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Christina Rossetti |
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Such are the passages in which the poet
contemplates
the joys of
heaven.
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John Donne |
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Where's my smooth brow gone:
My arching lashes, yellow hair,
Wide-eyed glances, pretty ones,
That took in the
cleverest
there:
Nose not too big or small: a pair
Of delicate little ears, the chin
Dimpled: a face oval and fair,
Lovely lips with crimson skin?
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And
unreluctant
Hermes 15
Shall give me words to say.
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Sappho |
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Be gracious,
Accessible
to foreigners, accept
Their service trustfully.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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whose voice rang through my ear,
Whose mighty
yearning
drew me from my sphere?
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Here, said she,
Is your card, the drowned
Phoenician
Sailor,
(Those are pearls that were his eyes.
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Lear - Nonsense |
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It is my purpose, lest I wear thee out,
Thee and thy friends, to seek at early dawn
The city, there to beg--But give me first
Needful instructions, and a trusty guide
Who may conduct me thither; there my task
Must be to roam the streets; some hand humane
Perchance shall give me a small
pittance
there,
A little bread, and a few drops to drink.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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The mercy of the king is
godlike, and
rebellion
is like unto the sin of witchcraft.
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Kipling - Poems |
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THE BRIDE
Call me,
Beloved!
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Rilke - Poems |
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Bring me the sunset in a cup,
Reckon the morning's flagons up,
And say how many dew;
Tell me how far the morning leaps,
Tell me what time the weaver sleeps
Who spun the
breadths
of blue!
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Dickinson - Three - Complete |
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Who bade you arise from your
darkness?
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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Much of the
poem is but a somewhat ambling paraphrase and expansion of Scriptural
narratives; but there are passages where Milton resumes his perfect
mastery of poetic form, under the inspiration that places him among the
selectest band of
immortal
singers.
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_ Beside these, too, I
bestowed
on them fire.
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Thoreau - Excursions and Poems |
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And Betty, now at Susan's side,
Is in the middle of her story,
What speedy help her Boy will bring, [11]
With many a most
diverting
thing, 125
Of Johnny's wit, and Johnny's glory.
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William Wordsworth |
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"
In this little book we have some of the best thoughts of one of the most
vigorous minds that ever added to the
strength
of English literature.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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{19c} "No art is
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at once and absolutely.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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225
XXVI
"The suns of twenty summers danced along,--
Too little marked how fast they rolled away:
But, through severe mischance and cruel wrong,
My father's
substance
fell into decay:
We toiled and struggled, hoping for a day 230
When Fortune might [13] put on a kinder look;
But vain were wishes, efforts vain as they;
He from his old hereditary nook
Must part; the summons [14] came;--our final leave we took.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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Now let me call across the snow-clad meadows,
Wherein you
threatened
oft to sink away,
As you, oblivious, lead me through the shadows
Of time--my solace now--but erst in play.
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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"God looks down from His
judgment
seat, 'Good will on earth' is His message sweet,
Turn your hearts to the Lord.
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Contemporary Verse - v01-02 |
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Lastly, with any grain,
Thou'lt see that no one kernel in one kind
Is so far like another, that there still
Is not in shapes some
difference
running through.
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The eagle, from the cliffy brow,
Marking you his prey below,
In his breast no pity dwells,
Strong necessity compels:
But Man, to whom alone is giv'n
A ray direct from pitying Heav'n,
Glories in his heart humane--
And
creatures
for his pleasure slain!
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Robert Burns - Poems and Songs |
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"The best
treasure
is in that
man's tongue, and he has mighty thanks, who metes out each thing in a few
words.
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Ben Jonson - Discoveries Made Upon Men, and Some Poems |
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The Priest sat by and heard the child;
In
trembling
zeal he seized his hair,
He led him by his little coat,
And all admired the priestly care.
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blake-poems |
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All day the waves
assailed
the rock
Alone in Rome.
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Emerson - Poems |
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"Hath he let vultures climb his eagle's seat
To make Jove's bolts
purveyors
of their maw?
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Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
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Such the love I bear
My heroine,
Tattiana
dear.
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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Droop, droop no more, or hang the head,
Ye roses almost withered;
Now
strength
and newer purple get,
Each here declining violet.
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Robert Herrick |
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I
wonder he's not ashamed of
himself!
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Pushkin - Daughter of the Commandant |
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Why hast thou
awakened
the heart within me, O Rose of the crimson thorn?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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Ah, 'tis not the jewels and
trinkets
alone;
Her look is so piercing, so _distingue_!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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Could I of my Queen be the hair-lock,
Neighbour
to Hydrochois e'en let Oarion shine.
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Catullus - Carmina |
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